{"id":4116,"date":"2010-05-22T23:04:45","date_gmt":"2010-05-23T03:04:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/?p=4116"},"modified":"2010-05-23T08:34:32","modified_gmt":"2010-05-23T12:34:32","slug":"still-crazy-after-all-these-years-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/2010\/05\/22\/still-crazy-after-all-these-years-2\/","title":{"rendered":"still crazy after all these years&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div align=\"justify\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"120\" hspace=\"5\" height=\"181\" border=\"1\" align=\"right\" src=\"http:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/images\/newt1.jpg\" \/>While he is unlikely to be electable, he is still the most dangerous man in America, so he&#8217;s worthy of worry no matter how remote his chances of holding office. He&#8217;s certainly been a prolific writer:<\/div>\n<ul>\n<li><em>The Government&#8217;s Role in Solving Societal Problems. January 1982<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>Window of Opportunity. December 1985.<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>Contract with America, December 1994.<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>Restoring the Dream, May 1995.<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>Quotations from Speaker Newt, July 1995.<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>To Renew America, July 1996.<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>Lessons Learned The Hard Way, May  1998.<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>Presidential Determination Regarding Certification of the  Thirty-Two Major Illicit Narcotics Producing and Transit Countries, September 1999.<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>Saving Lives and Saving Money, April 2003.<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"103\" hspace=\"4\" height=\"144\" border=\"1\" align=\"right\" src=\"http:\/\/t2.gstatic.com\/images?q=tbn:JP0i936la1kS9M:http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/wonkroom\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/09\/drill_book.JPG\" \/><\/em><em>Winning the Future, January 2005.<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>Rediscovering God in America:  Reflections on the Role of Faith in Our Nation&#8217;s History and Future, October 2006.<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>A Contract with the Earth, October 1, 2007.<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>Real Change: From the World That Fails to the World That Works, January 2008.<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em><strong><font color=\"#200020\">Drill Here, Drill Now, Pay Less:<\/font><\/strong><\/em><em> A  Handbook for Slashing Gas Prices and Solving Our Energy Crisis, September 2008.<\/em><\/li>\n<li>\n<div align=\"justify\"><em>To Save America: <strike>Abolishing Obama&#8217;s Socialist State and Restoring  Our Unique American Way <\/strike>Stopping Obama&#8217;s Secular Socialist Machine,<\/em> May 2010<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p align=\"justify\">Leading up to the 2008 Presidential election, he became a professional <em>maybe<\/em> Presidential Candidate. He did everything in his power to get people to want him to run [including funding a web-site named something like draftnewt.com]. He finally dropped out of the game in September 2007 when nobody cared enough:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<div align=\"center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ajc.com\/metro\/content\/metro\/stories\/2007\/09\/29\/gingrich_1001.html\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Gingrich not running for  president in &#8217;08<\/strong><\/a><br \/> September 2007<\/div>\n<p align=\"justify\">A spokesman for Newt Gingrich on Saturday said the  former U.S. House speaker has decided not to make a run as a Republican  candidate for the White House in 2008.<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">The abrupt decision was the result of legal advice  received this morning, said Gingrich spokesman Rick Tyler. Gingrich was  told that it would be &quot;legally impermissible&quot; to continue as head of  his non-profit American Solutions effort while operating an exploratory  committee for president, a move that was to be announced Monday.<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">&quot;Upon learning this, he made a decision,&quot; Tyler told the  Journal-Constitution. &quot;He decided it&#8217;s better to continue as chairman of  American Solutions. The news came as Gingrich finished two days of  workshops on national problems on the campus of the University of West  Georgia in Carrollton.<\/p>\n<div align=\"justify\">Only a day earlier, Gingrich&#8217;s advisors were saying  that the former Georgia congressman&#8217;s entry into the race was made  possible by the lackluster performance of former U.S. senator Fred  Thompson of Tennessee&#8230;<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<div align=\"justify\">So he&#8217;s winding up again. A New book. I love the last minute title change &#8211; <em>Abolishing Obama&#8217;s Socialist State and Restoring  Our Unique  American Way <\/em>became <em>Stopping Obama&#8217;s Secular Socialist Machine<\/em>. Newt is like that. I can hear him thinking, &quot;<em>No. That Socialist State thing isn&#8217;t loud enough, and I left out God. I know. How about Obama&#8217;s Secular Socialist Machine?<\/em>&quot; And he&#8217;s on television more than Al Rocker. He&#8217;s already musing aloud about a run for the Presidency in 2012 [he&#8217;ll be 69].<\/div>\n<p align=\"justify\"><img decoding=\"async\" vspace=\"3\" hspace=\"5\" border=\"1\" align=\"left\" src=\"http:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/images\/newt.jpg\" \/>Why is Newt Gingrich my recurrent top pick for the most dangerous person in America? He&#8217;s never done anything of note. He got a Ph.D. in history [thesis on &quot;Belgian Education Policy in the Congo&quot;], taught history at a small college in Georgia, spent twenty years as a Congressman [resigning to avoid an ethics charge], and philandered his way through a few marriages. <strong><font color=\"#200020\">He has no apparent&nbsp; principles or visible signs of morality, saying and doing whatever needs doing to get where he wants to go.<\/font><\/strong> But we are fortunate that he&#8217;s such a moral cripple, because without his checkered record, he&#8217;d get himself elected to high office. He has a good head of hair and a convincing style that keeps him afloat.<\/p>\n<div align=\"justify\">Somehow, he&#8217;s supported himself through a variety of Conservative Organizations and book sales based on his four year tenure as Speaker of the House. But Mr. Drill Here, Drill Now is still trying to get some actual power back, and so long as that is even a remote possibility, this chronic sociopath warrants careful watching&#8230;<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While he is unlikely to be electable, he is still the most dangerous man in America, so he&#8217;s worthy of worry no matter how remote his chances of holding office. He&#8217;s certainly been a prolific writer: The Government&#8217;s Role in Solving Societal Problems. January 1982 Window of Opportunity. December 1985. Contract with America, December 1994. 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